Thin leaf or fabric.



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HENRY R. GREGORY,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WALTER A. KER,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

THEN Lennon memo.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1907.

Application filedJuly 21,1906. Serial No. 327,236.

To all whom, it may oncern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY R. Gnneonr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Thin Leaf or Fabric, of which. the following is a specification.

My invention consists in providing thin I leaf or fabric which is made to imitate metal leafsuoh, for-instance, as gold leaf, silver leaf and the likewhich thin leaf or fabric is suitable for use in embossing and decorative purposes generally, it being extremely tenacious and capable of being more easily nandled than the gold or other metal leaf itself.

The thin leaf or fabric comprises a fiber which acts as a binder sucl1, for instance, as

soluble cotton-and acoloring-mattersuch for instance, as bronze. fabric is formed as follows: I combine a volatile solvent, a fiber which acts as a binder, and a coloring-matter and pour the same onto a liquid heavier than the volatile solvent and permit the volatile solvent toevaporate, thus leaving a leaf composed of the fiber,

which acts as a binder, and the coloring-matter, the volatile solvent having entirely disap eared.

he'substances which I have found suitable for use and the roportions of the same are substantially as ollows: I dissolve onequarter of a pound of what is commonly.

known in the art as soluble cotton in one gallon of What is commonly known in the art as amy oil.v To this solution I add a col oring-mattersuch, for instance, as bronze,

(if it is desired to form an imitation-gold leaf)and then thoroughly mix the same, the proportions bein substantially four parts of the solution of cotton and amyl oil The thin leaf or.

to one part of the bronze. This mixture is poured onto water confined in a vessel. A. thin leaf or fabric is rapidly formed on the surface of the water by the evaporation of the amyl oil, thus leaving the cotton fiber impregnated withthe coloring-matter. The formation of the leaf occursin a very short timeviz., Within a few minutes. The leaf may then be removed from the surface of the same onto a liquid heavier than the volatile solvent. r

4. A thin leaf or fabric formed by dissolving soluble cotton ina volatile oil, addinga coloring-matter thereto and pouring the same onto a liquid heavierthan the oil.

5. A thin leaf or fabric formed by dissolving soluble cotton in amyl oil, adding a coloring-matter thereto and pouring the same onto a liquid heavier than the amyl oil.

1pouring the same onto a liquid heavier than t In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in glresence of two witnesses, this 15th day 'of HENRY R. GREGORY. Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNES, HEN-RY THIEME. 

